At 12:29 PM 3/1/00 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
>Capitalism is not equivalent to freedom in any manner. If anything the
>pursuit of capitalist goals has driven more abuse than help by many
>orders of magnitude.
>
>There is a reason the Constitution doesn't mention business rights or
>commerce in general except in two sections (i.e. inter-state commerce and
>the pursuit of happiness (it's implied)).
You (like the Supremes) forgot:
Section. 10.
Clause 1:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant
Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any
Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill
of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of
Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
>Capitalism is not the answer to anything, it's the mechanism that funds
>the society not defines it. Nothing more, most especialy it is not the
>final goal of human effort.
Capitalism is an attack formation created by that great Classical Economist
Karl Marx. Classical Economics has been obsolete since the middle of the
last century and the development of Neo-Classical Economics and the Theory
of Marginal Utility.
"Capitalism" isn't the answer to anything but liberalism is. These days we
liberals use the term market liberalism in the US to distinguish ourselves
from the followers of Karl who use that term liberalism here because
they're too chicken to call themselves socialists.
DCF
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Republican politicians are better than Democrat politicians because they
don't support gun control so if you don't like them you can just shoot
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